XV Brazilian Digestive Week - Maria do Carmo Friche Passos, MD, PhD

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XV Brazilian Digestive Week
Maria do Carmo Friche Passos, MD, PhD
President of XV Brazilian Digestive Week
President of the Brazilian Federation of Gastroenterology
2015/2016
Over 5,000 medical professionals and
researchers attended the XV Brazil-ian
Digestive Week (SBAD) held in
Belo Horizonte between the 29th of
October and the 2nd of November of
2016. This congress is considered one
of the most important and respected
of Latin American gastroenterology
thanks to the combined work of Bra-zilian
Federation of Gastroenterology
(FBG), Brazilian Society of Digestive
Endoscopy (SOBED) and Brazilian
College of Digestive Surgery (CBCD).
During five days the most current and
relevant topics in all gastroenterologi-cal,
endoscopic and surgical fields pro-vided
all the participants an excellent
update and moments of friendship. It
is important to highlight the presence
of 35 world-renowned speakers and
590 speakers from all over Brazil who
presented with remarkable compe-tence
the scientific advances and the
latest researches of basic areas related
to digestive diseases.
It should be emphasized the occur-rence
of twelve pre-congress courses
held on the first two days of SBAD.
The participants could choose courses
in specific areas as liver, pancreas,
inflammatory bowel disease (IBD),
motility, endoscopy and digestive sur-gery.
Furthermore, there were courses
promoted by the Brazilian Societies of
Hepatology, Pediatric Gastroenterol-ogy,
Coloproctology and Bariatric
This congress is considered one of the most important
and respected of Latin American gastroenterology...
Surgery, and by the Brazilian Nucleus
for the Study of H. pylori.
One of the most attended courses
was promoted by FBG -- Potpourri
in Gastroenterology. Its goal was
to promote a wide review of the
most important and current topics
of clinical gastroenterology, and it
had 812 participants. Similarly, the
live interactive course of diagnostic
and therapeutic endoscopy counted
almost 700 attendees. The exams were
performed by national and foreign
experts and took place in Hospital of
Clinics of the Federal University of
Minas Gerais and transmitted live to
the convention center. The course of
gastroenterological imaging, which
was held for the first time in a SBAD,
emphasized the importance of new
diagnostic methods such as contrast-enhanced
abdominal ultrasound. Two
internationally recognized special-ists,
Stephanie Wilson (University of
Calgary) and Dean Huang (King’s
College London) lectured and shared
with the gastroenterologists and
radiologists their great scientific and
technical knowledge.
We should also highlight the sym-posia,
roundtables and conferences
promoted in partnership with impor-tant
international medical societies
as the American Gastroenterological
Association, American Society for
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Sociedad
Argentina de Gastroenterología and
the Japanese/Brazilian course with
Japanese endoscopists.
Some of the congress sessions had a
high demand, such as those present-ing
the new Rome IV Criteria for
Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders.
Professor Magnus Simrén (University
of Gothenburg) brilliantly presented
conferences on this topic. Similarly,
Professor José Cotter (University of
Minho), the President of the Portu-guese
Society of Gastroenterology,
Opening Ceremony - XV Brazilian Digestive
Week (SBAD)
Exhibition area – Brazilian Federation of
Gastroenterology